Adaptations and Equipment
To make the boats more accessible for disabled people we have designed, made or bought the following:
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plastic seats with safety straps to fix inside the cockpit
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a hoist to get people aboard
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automatically inflating life-jackets with harnesses, life-lines
and strobe lights -
personal EPIRBS (emergency beacons)
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waterproof charts for navigation work in the cockpit
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hand held VHF radio
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hand held GPS (satellite navigation)
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audio compass
The "Sedan chair" being used
to
transport a disabled sailor across
another boat. Two people can use
his to take someone below decks
